Receptacle-closure



C. E. DOYLE.

RECEPTACLE CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4. 1920.

1,347,446. Patent d July 20, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE E. DOYLE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TOHUTCHINSON EGG-CASE FILLER COMPANY, OF HUTCHINSON, KANSAS.

RECEPTACLE-CLOSURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1920.

Application filed February 4, 1920. Serial No. 356,273.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE E. DOYLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Receptacle-Closures, of which the following isa specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple andrelativelyinexpensive means adapted for application as an attachment toboxes, packages and receptacles particularly of the paste-board andcard-board type designed as shipping containers for salt, spices,baking-powder and other granular and powdered substances, and moreespecially those designed for domestic use, whereby the quantitativedischarge of the contents of the receptacle may be facilitated whileinsuring the effective protection thereof from dust and atmosphericdeterioration during the intervals between the periods of use, and thusto provide a convertible closure and dispensing spout for use inconnection with an outlet orifice which may be formed in a wall of suchreceptacle or con tainer', and to devise a construction for the purposeof which the blank maybe stamped in one operation from sheet metal andmay be permanently and at the same time movably mounted upon thereceptacle with the minimum effort and expenditure of time as to theassembling agency and without necessitating the exercise of a highdegree of skill when performed manually.

\Vith these objects in view, the invention consists in a constructionand combination of instrumentalities of which a typical embodiment isillustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein V Figure 1 is a view ofthe device in its normal or closed position in relation to a receptacle.

Fig. 2 shows the same adjusted for use as a spout.

Fig. 3 is a view taken from the inside of the receptacle.

Fig. 4 is a View of the blank.

The preferred form of the device consists of sector-shaped cover andguide Wings 10 and 11 produced from a substantially semi-circular blank(Fig. 4:) by bending on a radial fold line 12. The free radial boundary13 of the cover wing, constituting the portion of the diametrical edgeextending in one direction from the intersection of the fold line, isdesigned as a hearing or hinge edge to be seated upon the exteriorsurface of a wall 14 of a receptacle adjacent to an outlet opening 15provided therein, and projecting from said edge for penetra tion of thereceptacle wall are ears or extensions 16, 17, adapted for contact withthe inner surface of said wall, respectively, in the open and closedpositions of the cover wing. To this end one of the ears,as for examplethat designated as 16is of such dimensions as to be pliable, so thatafter the ears have penetrated the wall of the receptacle, one of themmay be bent to ex tend substantially perpendicular to the other. Theseears are preferably arranged remote from the plane of the fold line 12,or near the outer arcuate edge of the cover wing.

The radial free edge 18 of the guide wing carries an ear or extension19, also bendable to a position perpendicular to the plane of the wingand serving by contact with the inner surface of the receptacle wall tohold that end of the hinge or bearing edge of the cover wing which isnear the fold line in an effectively seated position on the receptaclewall, in both the open and closed positions of the device. The guidewing which extends through and operates in the outlet opening of thereceptacle wall is also provided with a stop ear or extension 20, toengage the inner surface of the wall and limit the hinge or swingingmovement of the cover wing, when the attachment is extended as in Fig.2, to serve as a spout.

The ears or extension on the hinge edge of the cover wing may be formedas shown of a single tongue, terminally reduced to facilitatepenetration of the receptacle wall and split to provide for separationafter the penetration has been effected.

What I claim is:

1. A convertible closure and spout for receptacles having angularlydisposed cover and guide wings, of which the former is adapted to behingedly seated at one edge on a receptacle wall adjacent to an openingtherein, and wall penetrating extensions on the seated edge of the coverwing for contact with the inner surface of the penetrated wallrespectively in the closed and open positions of the cover wing.

2. A convertible closure and. spout for receptacles having angularlydisposed cover and guide wings, of which the former is adapted to behingedly seated at one edge on a receptacle wall adjacent to anopeningtherein, and wall penetrating extensions on adapted to be hingedlyseated at one edge on a receptacle wall adjacent to an opening therein,and wall penetrating extensions on the seated edge of the cover wing,one of said extensions being in contact with the inner surface of thewall when the cover wing is in the open positlon.

' plane of the 30 v 4. A convertible closure and spout for re ceptacleshaving angularly disposed sectorshaped cover and guide-wings of whichthe latter is provided at its free radial edge with a lateral earlocated near the angular junction line of the wings while the former isprovided at its. free radial edge with a plurality of ears one of whichis arranged remote from said angular junction line and is disposedsubstantially perpendicular to the wing.

'5; As an article of manufacture a blank for a convertible closure andspout for receptacles, having a substantially semicircular body foldableon a radial crease line to form quadrant-shaped wings and provided atthe diametrical free edge; at each side of the fold line with aplurality of extension ears.

6. As an article of manufacture a blank for a convertible closure andspout for receptacles, having a substantially semicircular body foldableona radial crease line to form quadrant-shaped wings and provided at thediametrical free edge at each side of the fold line with ears orextensions which on one wing are remote 'from and on the other arerespectively adjacent to and remote from said fold line, and one each ofthe ears at opposite sides of the fold line being bendable to a planeperpendicular to the plane of the wing by which it is carried. 8. Thecombination with a receptacle having an outlet opening in the wallthereof, of a closure for said opening having angularly related coverand guide wings provided with radial free edges of which that of thecover wing is seated upon the exterior surface of the receptacle walladjacent to the opening, the guide wing being extended through thereceptacle wall and having an arcuate edge concentric with the seatededge of the cover wing, each of said wings at its radial edge having earextensions and those of the cover wing extending respectivelysubstantially in the direction of and perpendicular to the plane of saidwing.

CLARENCE n. DOYLE.

